As a creationist, I find it highly annoying how stupid most creationists are, and how inept so many are at fighting evolutionists. A large part of the problem is that evolutionists play fast and loose with words. “Evolution” is a sack full of associated but not necessarily entangled connotations. Walter ReMine spends a fair amount of pages in The Biotic Message demonstrating the sleight of hand used by evolution propagandists so he can establish a consistent and non-equivocal terminology, so he can go about the business of arguing for a fascinating theory of creation.

Where this is relevant to your post: any creationist who believes that dogs, foxes, coyotes, dingoes, and wolves all descended from the same original beast ought to have no trouble with the idea that creatures change form, diversify, adapt. They evolve, if evolve is taken strictly to mean “unfold”, and not the creation of new genetic information. What I perceive to be the non-negotiable objection held by most creationists (smart or stupid) is an objection to common descent. This is fitting. Common descent is prima facie ridiculous. Future generations will catalog the idea alongside spontaneous generation and the bodily humors.

So: even the most recalcitrant young earth creationists ought not to have trouble with the concept that God’s creatures change and adapt, including humans. But some do, as demonstrated. The problem’s source, as with so many other diseases of modernity, is in Universalism. It is offensive to the Universalized mind, yea even the fundamentalist churchian creationist Universalized mind, to contemplate that some races of mankind may be degraded, incompetent, beastly, in a word: devolved.

Word on the street is that Aunt Giggles (a.k.a. Susan Walsh) is now deleting any comments which mention Dalrock, Rollo, or Yohami. Truth will out. Groovy.

Obviously the best response is to see how many people can get banned this weekend from Hooking Up Smart. We’ll call it the The Great Susan Walsh Ban-athon. The goal: 1000 bannings by Monday.

Here’s the plan:

Go to Hooking Up Smart, pick a post or three, and add a comment containing the names Dalrock, Rollo Tomassi, and Yohami. Save the link to your particular comment and, if you know how, take a screen shot and upload it to some image host.

Then come back here and report your contribution in the comments. Include the link to your comment and to the screen shot, if you have one. To keep the banning total honest, anyone we don’t recognize as an established member of the mano/ortho/roissysphere will be asked to provide a link to some comment or blog post proving his existence before this week.

Spread the word. Give Aunt Giggles the bird. The success of The Great Susan Walsh Ban-athon is in your hands.